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May 20 2019
Perspectives Blog
The Imprisonment of Marsha Lazareva
Those working for the release of Marsha Lazareva were hoping for some relief last Sunday. But the hearing, which had been scheduled for the week before but was abandoned, brought only confusion for the family, friends and advocates of the businesswoman imprisoned in Kuwait for over a year.
In effect, Lazareva’s appeal was delayed until 9 June. But for Lazareva it was the latest torment
Henry WindsorMar 27 2015
News
New Player in the ISIS War: Christian Gazillionaire Foster Friess
Republican megadonor Foster Friess is shifting his sights from political campaigns to a military campaign: to fight ISIS and save Kurdish lives.
Behind the scenes, the conservative Christian has been traveling to the Middle East to support the vulnerable Kurdish minority in Iraq, and then coming back to the U.S. to lobby for arming and training their militias, known as the Peshmerga.
Daily BeastNov 04 2013
News
Obama to Use Immigration, Economy to Divert Focus From Site Failure
The Affordable Care Act's disastrous rollout has confounded the Obama administration and left officials scrambling to change strategy in an effort to deflect attention from Obamacare.
Immigration and the economy will trump healthcare, though officials say the president still will address the issue during a series of campaign-like stops around the country, The Wall Street Journal reports
Newsmax (News)Jul 10 2019
News
Fact Check: Actually, the Trump Economy is Benefitting the Very People Democrats Claim It Isn't
One of the trickier bits of political positioning facing Democrats this cycle is how to talk about the American economy. By nearly every metric, it's performing quite well. Unemployment is low, growth is pretty strong, wages are rising, the stock market is up -- and we're in the midst of the longest overall US economic expansion in recorded history. Roughly 70 percent of voters are
TownhallApr 15 2019
Opinion
OPINION: Go to a Cheap College — or None at All
A bachelor’s degree certifies a set of life skills you don’t really need college for.
When customers visit an Enterprise Rent-a-Car establishment for the first time, they are often pleasantly surprised to be waited on by a staff of young managers, typically in their 20s, well dressed, polite, and efficient. The situation is much in contrast to many operations that employ middle-aged
Guest Writer - RightMay 08 2020
Perspectives Blog
Introducing AllSides Facts and Fact Checking
Facts are facts, but the way they’re presented (or ignored) can still be biased. Information based in fact can imply things that are misleading or even turn out to be untrue.
To better reveal the truth and reality we all seek, AllSides is launching our Facts and Fact Checking Portal. Here, we’ll curate a balanced spread of the latest fact check articles, in-depth research reports,
AllSides StaffJul 31 2014
Opinion
Why the Death Penalty Needs to Die
Another week, another botched killing under the legal euphemism of capital punishment. After macabre screw-ups in Oklahoma and Ohio, it was Arizona's turn last week, when double-murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took about two hours to die. The specific problem this time around was an apparently unreliable “cocktail” of the drugs used in the lethal injection process.
But let’s face it:
Daily BeastJul 29 2014
News
Europe's 4-point plan to sanction Russia
After a five-way conference call between the leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy the European Union seems ready to outline tough new sanctions on Russia. Not just the shooting down of MH 17, but Russia's total lack of remorse or post-shootdown restrain appears to have been a game-changer in terms of German politics and that's been enough to swing the situation around. The
VoxFeb 01 2019
Perspectives Blog
Introducing the AllSides Media Bias Chart
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Introducing the 2019 AllSides Media Bias Chart, an easy way for you to identify political bias in the news so you can be better equipped to navigate our increasingly polarized media landscape. (And don't miss our full and growing list of almost 600 media
Julie Mastrine